[hf]

The point isn't easily settled, it seems:

I am having a hard time to find financial statements from Debian.

Ubuntu, or rather Canonical, being a private company, doesn't seem to release financial information. The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore.

Which leaves RedHat, at last. A public company, of course[0]:

   Operating profit 2014: $ 1.3e9
   Net total income 2014: $ 178.3e6

[0] http://investors.redhat.com/financials-statements.cfm

[dfc]

Software in Public Interest handles debian's donations. The latest treasurer report from SPI can be found here: http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2014-November...

For some reason SPI has not put out an annual report since 2012: http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/annual-reports/2012.pdf

[vacri]

This article claims that $222k was the budget for 2012 for Debian, down at the bottom. It also claims the budget should be $19B, if paid at market rates.

http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/what-is-the-development-costs-o...

[tokenizerrr]

> The Ubuntu main page doesn't even provide a 'donate' link anymore

Try to download it: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1...

[Alupis]

Here's Canonical's 2013 numbers:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/199373896/Canonical-Group-Limited-...

21 million USD negative, largely due to Ubuntu development and related expenses.

Canonical has never been profitable, which is why Shuttleworth constantly re-invests his own personal capital in the company.